This past month I've been enjoying a lot of new content from across my interests. Namely cooking, as I'm hoping to try my hand at a few more awesome recipes I found, and also learn how to smoke BBQ!

There's also been some more drama around the white-nationalist views and asshole-ish nature of the creator of Omarchy and the core maintainer of Hyprland. It's something I used as a jumping point in my essay about why politics is an inevitable part of everything. Either way a blog linked below has a good summary, and yes I do use Hyprland at the moment, but it sounds like that community is taking positive steps forward. ^{Remains to be seen about Varxy's transphobia tho}

Either way some drama for you to sip your tea to and some really really cool blogs to read. I've been finding most of my intereting articles through my RSS feed and powRSS, whereas Neocities I browse for really cool aesthetic designs and fun website ideas. If there are any neocities sites out there that are really dedicated to the writing bit, send them my way!

Blogs

• Arya Bread Crumbs - Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support?

  • A great summary of the situation with Framework, which I believe initially gained attention through the linked forum post. To preempt the usual knee-jerk reaction I just want to quote the person from the forum:

  This is not a “I do not like this distribution” kind of argument. This is a “the people you are sending my money to want me and my friends dead or deported” kind of argument.

• Joel Chrono - When a Tool Becomes a Hobby

  • "What do watches, safety razors, and fountain pens have in common?" A very cool read that (in non-marxist language) touches on the commodification of hobbies. I've had similar thoughts before around how consumerism becomes a hobby and a hobby becomes identity.

• Prickly Oxheart - Envying The Simple Man

  • This article is one of my favorites lately. It really challenged me. I think I do envy the simple man, and I love the conclusion this writer comes to about what to do about that. I will say similarly to Westenberg, this writer is very lofty and prose-like, but I can look past the pretentiousness at the surface, because I think what they are saying has value.

Videos

• W2 Kitchen
  • This is my new favorite cooking channel. It really reminds me of when cooking content wasn't all fucking "RATING EVERY FAST FOOD BURGER IN THE COUNTRY" and was about education and bringing new cousines in front of an audience that would typically never think about it. I particularly LOVE how Evan explains the why behind every ingredient, substitution, cooking time, technique, etc. The videos are also quite short for cooking content, which is nice.

Other

• The Verge - Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account
  • Microsoft and Apple have really been fucking up lately, let's hope it truly does mean people will be willing to try out Linux desktop.
  • Something that a lot of folks forget to consider in this conversation is that a LOT of poorer people cannot simply afford to throw away the non-TPM2.0 computer they use for school or home just because MS doesn't want to support it. I'm actually part of a FIXIT community group that is going to conduct a Linux installation clinic to help lower-income folks or folks that simply don't want to deal with MS's bullshit. We are also going to be giving away old laptops with Linux on them so that kids in lower income families can use them.

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